Tiles

Posted on October 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Ceramics, Creativity, Potteries, Potteries Museum and art gallery, Random, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Thinking, TilesLeave a comment

One thing about living in Stoke is that you get to see beautiful pottery. For instance these tiles may be simple for or wall decorations, but they signify the creativity of the City.

You visit the Potteries Museum and art gallery, in the city centre (Hanley), you will see amazing beauty and talent in the history of the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

A whole history and creativity that has gradually dwindled as austerity has crippled the country. Manufacturing has reduced, has been driven offshore by costs, and although some had started to return, the current situation has made things worse again. Life continues…..

Collected mugs

Posted on October 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Christmas, Design, Emma Bailey Ceramics, Middleport, Middleport pottery, Penkhull, Penkhull flag, The flag institute, VexillologicalLeave a comment

This is one of the mugs I bought from Emma Bailey Ceramics. She’s done a run of them to celebrate Penkhull Winning the #WorldSeriesOfFlags from the #theflaginstitute. Great fun. Bonus, if you live in Penkhull you get a discount!

So pleased with them. Its also good because we won the #FACupOfFlags. I helped design the flag as part of a competition a couple of years ago. That’s some Christmas presents sorted out.

After Picasso, section 8

Posted on October 3, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged After Picasso, Art, Can you tell which painting it's from, Challenge, Cubism, ffun, Group painting, Orme Art group, Watercolour, Watercolour sketch2 Comments

I’ve just done this… It is my number 8,
I’m not happy with it but it’s the best I can do… Its a bit too tall…..
I could do it again? This is in watercolour.

When I try and copy something I don’t square it up or try and measure the proportions, which is a bit foolish. I just ‘go for it’. I could do with running this through photoshop so I could alter its proportions.

Anyway I’ve basically given up. Top is the picture I was copying. I will post the Orme Art Groups image when everyone has finished.

Horse sketch

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Blogging, Design, Doodle, Fun, Horse, Metallic brushes8 Comments

Chatting with someone earlier reminded me how I like to doodle horses. I will draw them from photos, but I also enjoy playing about digitally. This was drawn in ArtRage oils free app. It has a slider to change brush sizes and how metallic they look and different brushes including a dry ink, endless oils, and a couple of others. I’m quite pleased with the outcome.

Hubby’s drawings

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apedale, Art, Cottage, Creativity, Drawing, Hubby, Lake district, Life, Mountains, Picture, Train2 Comments

It’s great to see his drawings, he doesn’t draw very often and definitely has his own style. He bought himself a drawing kit with a drawing board, (a piece of card) some different harnesses of pencils, an eraser and a pencil sharpener. The pictures were his own ideas, the mountainous one is from the cover of a book about the lake district, and the train drawing is taken from a picture on the cover of a leaflet from the Apedale railway. I hope he does more. I’m going to buy him a sketch pad.

If anyone wants to watch some drawing techniques go over to my friend Martha Kennedy’s WordPress pages. Sorry I don’t have a link, I will try and find one. She has done some drawing tutorials over on YouTube.

Jenni Murray watercolour

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, BBC, BBC radio 4, Cartridge paper, Jenni Murray, Painting, Portrait, Tricia Youkevich photo, Watercolour, Watercolour sketch, Woman's HourLeave a comment

Jenni Murray, who has presented BBC Radio 4’s long running Woman’s Hour for the last Thirty three years, retired from the show yesterday.

This painting is based on a photo by Tricia Yourkevich in the Guardian newspaper today. The painting is approximately the same size as the photo.

I hope Jenni Murray doesn’t mind me painting her. I have followed Woman’s Hour for years and have always found her to be an intelligent, warm and humourous host.

I also hope Tricia Youkevich doesn’t mind me using her photo, If she wants me to take this post down I will as I would if Jenni Murray objects.

I don’t do many watercolours and this is a quick sketch on on white cartridge paper in a small A4 sketchbook.

Attempt at a bit of Picasso

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Almost right, Art, Autumn challenge, Hand eye coordination, Life, Orme Art group, Permanent markers, Picasso in felt pensLeave a comment

With felt pens and a bit of watercolour. I can’t get the purple right, I had a purple felt pen but it’s too dark. So I tried some silver on it and when that didn’t work. I might add some brown to the blacks… With brown paint. This is part of a painting by Picasso that the Orme Group of artists are taking a section of for our autumn challenge…

Mostly finished….. But so many wrong bits!

Orange

Posted on October 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Challenge, Colours, Drawing, Life, Orange, Permanent markers, Prompt, Shading, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s prompt for band of sketchers was the colour orange. I gathered a group of things together and used permanent markers to draw it in. I tried to colour the areas without drawing it out first.

Orange is a peculiar colour, some people identify reds as orange, and orange as yellow. Everyone has different eyesight and abilities to differentiate colours. I imagine someone with colour-blindness would just see muddy browns?

Corridor

Posted on October 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Covid 19, Eleanora street, Life, Spode, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-upon-Trent, TimeLeave a comment

Welcome to Spode studios. I have to admit I have not been in since the March lockdown. My reasons? Covid19, fear of catching it or passing it on if I do catch it.

The corridors are usually quiet, but you don’t know who’s there. I should call in, but now I’ve started an online course my available time has reduced. I need to make a timetable. To work out when I should go in. I have good intentions, but as they say about them, the road to hell is paved with them. I guess I’m really a bit down and still recovering from my tonsillitis. Yuk.

Faces

Posted on September 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Duplicated, Edges, Fun, Layout app, Life, Mirrored, Photo, TonesLeave a comment

I can’t remember how I created this, I have mirrored and duplicated it, but I can’t remember all the processes it went through. If I tried to do this again I don’t know if I could duplicate it. Memory fails me. I’m not sure how old this is, it just popped up on my phone when I was deleting some large photo files. It’s weird, but I like it.

Mallaband-Brown

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